aBundleOfFerrets,

try using nvidia-dkms and linux-headers instead of nvidia

Pantherina,

Lts Kernel

Rangus97,

If it ends up being Optimus, I’ve found optimus-manager-qt from the aur to be great. You don’t have to mess around with configs and you can make switching or setting to Nvidia permanently really easy with it

unionagainstdhmo,
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I’ve got a bit of experience with NVIDIA Optimus laptops on Linux so here’s some questions:

  • What exactly is the problem?
  • Are games not running on NVIDIA?

In this case you need to add an environment variable to the launch options in steam, the name of which has escaped me (should be on OPTIMUS page of Arch wiki)

  • Or is the driver not working at all?
  • What desktop environment/wm are they using?

For example if you’re using GNOME in the settings program in the about the system section (the last one) and in the System information dialog check to make sure it says something like “NVIDIA GTX 1050 Mobile”. Also make sure the NVIDIA driver program shows up with the other apps

crispy_kilt,

Btw I use Debian

laskobar,

I have a 1050 in my Laptop and it works fine with the nvidia package AS proprietary driver

Liz_thestrange,

Could you please provide me with a guide or tutorial for how to do it?

CubitOom, (edited )

The best thing about arch is the wiki.

wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

That said, on a laptop, you will likely need prime, optimus, or bumblebee depending on your CPU/GPU.

Liz_thestrange,

I’m looking right now on optimus, and it’s seems like it’s what we need, we’ll be testing it as soon as possible, thank you very much!

odium,

wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

Liz_thestrange,

I’m reading again everything to see for something that could help, it’s look like optimus could be a solution, thanks

warmaster,

Indeed, since it’s a laptop. It uses the iGPU for battery saving graphics and the Nvidia dGPU for performance. That’s hybrid graphics / optimus.

That said, Nvidia is a pain. I always recommend distrohopping until you land on a distro that mostly works for your use case and go from there.

navigatron,

Optimus gets complex quick. You’ll be reading pci bus ids before you know it. Keep the wiki open, go slowly; you got this :)

luthis,

Have you tried pacman -Syu nvidia?

Liz_thestrange,

Yes, he is been using arch for almost year and a half but he has never managed to make the drivers work, this pakage unfortunatley didn´t work neither when he tried himself or now while I’m trying to help him, thanks btw

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